Today’s episode features writer, women’s advocate, and tech entrepreneur Kathryn Finney. Named one of the most influential women in tech by Inc Magazine, she’s the Founder and Managing Director of digitalundivided, which fosters economic growth by empowering black and latina women entrepreneurs.

Kathryn talks about the courage required to find your tribe and take a leap when you feel there’s more out there for you. From her travels to Ghana during the height of the AIDS epidemic and deciding to become an epidemiologist, to starting one of the first fashion blogs and changing up all of her plans, Kathryn shares how she’s dealt with fear and challenges on her path to figuring out what she wants most out of life.

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Highlighted Excerpt:

Kathryn: So my father passed away, I got married, and it was like, I literally had no idea what I was going to do with my life. Because everything I thought I was going to do was disrupted.

I was very close to my family. My family is the reason why I’m here today. So I just thought, How can I be abroad and do this work and also maintain my family? What am I going to do? Because this path I thought I was on, I’m wasn’t on it anymore. I was really at a crossroads.

Majo: I’m curious, because it sounds like your father told you to go and live your life. So how did you interpret that to mean staying?

Kathryn: Well, it was a sense of responsibility. One that hadn’t been put on me by anyone else, but I felt it. I think most women take on things that others don’t ask us to. So I felt like that was what I was supposed to do. I mean, my family needed me, but I also needed them.

Majo: So what I hear you saying is, there’s a sense of sacrifice with that other path. Like maybe all of that travel… maybe you weren’t feeling it anymore?

Kathryn: I don’t know that it was a sacrifice, or if it was more of a decision. Like, what do I really want in life? I think as women we’re often faced with that. And we have to ask ourselves, What is it, right now in my life, that I really want. What will make me happy?